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Holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting from the Department of Interpreting and Translation (DIT) of the University of Bologna in Forlì, with a specialisation in conference interpreting (Italian, English, and Spanish), and a PhD in Languages, Cultures and Intercultural Communication from the same university, with a dissertation on simultaneous interpreting corpora. He subsequently worked in the Department of Economic, Social, Mathematical and Statistical Studies (ESOMAS) at the University of Turin (2012–2024), expanding his research interests to the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in professional and academic settings, with particular attention to English‑Medium Instruction (EMI). He is currently Associate Professor of English Language, Translation and Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona, while continuing to work as a conference interpreter.
He is affiliated as an external researcher with the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) in the recognised research group “Translation and Interpreting, Interculturality, Applied Languages and Travel Literature”, and with the “111 Center for International Cooperation and Disciplinary Innovation” at Dalian University of Foreign Languages (DUFL, China). He serves on the editorial boards of two international journals: The Interpreters’ Newsletter (University of Trieste) and Contrastive Pragmatics (Brill).
His main research interests lie in interpreting studies and corpus linguistics, contributing to the development of the first electronic interpreting corpora, including the European Parliament Interpreting Corpus (EPIC) and the Directionality in Simultaneous Interpreting Corpus (DIRSI‑C). Other interests include non‑verbal communication, theatre training applied to interpreter education, and the ethnography of communication. His recent research focuses on the use of AI‑based tools by interpreting students, trainers, and professionals, as well as on mediated and non‑mediated communication practices in hospital settings.
Claudio Bendazzoli
Valerio Rocco Lozano has been Director of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid since 2019. He is also Professor of Modern History of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he earned his PhD in 2011 and served as Vice‑Dean for Research, Knowledge Transfer and the Library of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters from 2015 to 2019. He received the First National Prize for Academic Excellence in Philosophy and the Extraordinary Doctoral Award. He is currently Tasks Leader of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research Project FAILURE, devoted to the concept of failure and its reversibility.
He has published a monograph titled La vieja Roma en el joven Hegel, the critical edition of Franco Volpi’s posthumous work on Heidegger, and has coordinated twelve collective volumes and three special journal issues on topics related to philosophy of history, political philosophy, and the history of modern philosophy. For the Círculo de Bellas Artes, he has coordinated the volumes Glosario del fracaso and Hegel y Hölderlin. Una amistad estelar. His main line of research concerns the influence of the Roman world on modern and contemporary political ideologies, particularly in German Idealism.
He is co‑founder of the journals Despalabro. Ensayos de Humanidades and Antítesis. Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Hegelianos, and serves as Assistant Editor of Philosophical Readings. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Banco Sabadell Foundation, the Executive Committee of the Spanish Society for Academic Philosophy, the Advisory Council of the Teatro Real, the Social Council of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, the Academic Council of the Casa de Velázquez, and the Cultural Council of the Community of Madrid. In 2022 he was named Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy by the President of the Italian Republic, and in 2024 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.
